The UN’s International Organisation for Migration says about 736,000 people have been internally displaced inside the country. Almost 3.8 million were already internally displaced before the conflict began.
A South Sudanese returnee, who fled Khartoum, trying to find a phone signal after arriving from Sudan, at the border town of Wunthaou, South Sudan. Photograph: Amel Pain/EPA-EFE The conflict has dealt a bitter blow to Sudan’s pro-democracy movement, which has been working towards and hoping for a transition to civilian rule in the North African country since before the ousting of former dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019.